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My Rough and Rowdy Ways
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Country prison song, in Johnny Cash style.
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Old time classic country, western cowboy songs, and bluegrass. Back porch style, old timey pickin' for clogging, square dancing, or just listening.
Night Hawk Bluegrass & Western Tumble Weed Tammy and Santa Fe Steve work together to bring back nostalgic western and bluegrass tunes from the past as well as new songs of their own with close ties to the past. Tumble Weed Tammy By day Tumble Weed is the kitchen administrator and manager of the kitchen at the county hoosegow. By night she plays bass fiddle, bass guitar and contributes vocals to the group. Tammy enjoys horseback riding (trail riding) and fitness and exercise when not slingin' hash or pickin' the bass. Santa Fe Steve Santa Fe hung up his badge and gun after 25 years of law man duty, keeping the peace in the dusty streets of Gladwin. When not playing Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, or singing Santa Fe is the chief operator of a wireless telegraph station (K8BZ) on the ham radio frequencies of the air waives.
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Genre
Country Bluegrass
Charts
#7,384 today Peak #55
#570 in subgenre Peak #7
Author
Steve Wuelfing
Rights
2002 Steve Wuelfing
Uploaded
December 18, 2005
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MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:15
Story behind the song
I always liked the country prison songs and took a shot at one myself.
Lyrics
My wicked ways have led me here, I’m face to face with all my fear In this jail house cell alone and low For all the wrong that I have done, they won’t let me see the sun I can’t be free they’ll never let me go My mother and my dad gave everything they had For my lawyer and my trial they paid the sum But they should have kept their head for I shot that gambler dead Then I took his watch and chain and hid the gun CHORUS My rough and rowdy ways are bound to haunt me all my days They say that I must reap what I have sown It’s too late now for me, I will never more be free I’m lonely for my family and my home My wife and child are now alone, forced to make it on their own I told her to forget me and move on Find another man I said, just pretend that I am dead I’m shackled and I never can come home It’s only right that I should pay with my life now every day In this cold dark cell here where I lay When I think of Mom and Dad and my woman I am sad It’s my fault for this crime they have to pay CHORUS
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